(n.) An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision.
(n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.
(n.) A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him.
(n.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
(v. t.) To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.
(v. t.) To ordain by fate.
(v. i.) To make decrees; -- used absolutely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Threshold temperatures for males were a little higher than for females, however, this difference was lesser than 1 decree C. On the other hand, the quantity of energy (GD) for developing females was a little higher than for males.
(2) Egypt • Morsi is due to meet senior judges to try to reach a compromise over the decree, viewed by many as a power grab.
(3) Substantial changes in X-ray diagnosis procedures will be introduced with the expected guidelines on implementation of the new decree.
(4) Hogan set out his decree in a letter to the city’s district court administrative judge Wednesday.
(5) But the decree included provisions for an increase in the capital of Italy's central bank – a move that will swell the balance sheets of the commercial banks that are shareholders in the Bank of Italy.
(6) I created a country', says the rebel driving South Sudan's brutal war Read more “I, Salva Kiir Mayardit, president of the Republic of South Sudan, do hereby issue this republican decree for the appointment of Dr Riek Machar Teny as the first vice-president of the Republic of South Sudan ,” said the decree issued late on Thursday.
(7) Our results show that an oral dosage of 20 mg of 5-IM given to patients with stable angina pectoris increased the capacity and exercise tolerance delaying significantly the onset time of angina, the onset time of EKG ischemia and its decree induced by the effort up to 5 hours after its administration.
(8) Turkey has issued a decree paving the way for the conditional release of 38,000 prisoners in an apparent move to make jail space for thousands of people who have been arrested after last month’s failed coup .
(9) The more the president rules by decree – and one faction in the Brotherhood argues that he should issue a constitutional decree of his own, annulling the content of the decree Scaf issued within hours of the closing of the presidential polls – the more he risks alienating his future political partners in the broad-tent political coalition he intends to set up both under him as president, and under the prime minister he intends to nominate.
(10) More than 100,000 people took to the streets of Cairo on Tuesday to protest against a decree by the Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, that grants him sweeping constitutional powers.
(11) And while I also believe that banning adoptions by Americans is unethical (this is personal for me – as an American, I am also now banned from adopting, and as a young mother, I find something seriously wrong with this), I also believe that Russia's orphan problem can be solved by making changes that must happen on a local level, and not as the result of a top-down decree.
(12) They accused the decree of attempting to topple the legal state, make Morsi a God whose decisions cannot be reviewed and build a dictatorship unlike any other Egypt has ever witnessed.
(13) Kuwait • A decree issued by Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al Sabah, that changes voting rules, thereby weakening the opposition, has stirred signs of the Arab Spring in the oil-rich nation , Ian Black writes: The opposition is a coalition of youth groups, disgruntled tribes and Islamists.
(14) Leftwing and liberal parties have called for an open-ended sit-in aimed at "toppling" the decree.
(15) For three decades politicians and pundits have decreed that electoral success can only be achieved on the basis of an establishment corporate orthodoxy they decreed to be "the centre".
(16) The Czech Association of Pharmacists was established as a state-constituted professional organization by the decree of the Czech Government dated 11 March 1784, the initiator of the decree being Josef Gottfried Mikan (1742-1818), the then Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Botany and Chemistry at Charles University.
(17) Morsi issued his decree last Thursday, granting himself sweeping powers and immunity from judicial challenges over any laws he may pass until a new parliament is elected and a constitution is in place.
(18) A decree issued by Ukraine's interim president, Oleksandr Turchynov, said that compulsory military service – which was scrapped earlier this year – was being reinstated "given the deteriorating situation in the east and the south … the rising force of armed pro-Russian units and the taking of public administration buildings … which threaten territorial integrity".
(19) On Friday, at the end of a week which saw the spectre of bankruptcy loom large over the ancient capital, the Italian government said it had approved a last-minute decree that would give an urgently-needed injection of funds to the city, thus staving off imminent disaster.
(20) The decree included Mikan's requirements and the introduction of tests for pharmacists' apprentices (tirones) prior to the journeyman's examination and compulsory registration of employed pharmacists (subjecti) at the Faculty of Medicine.
Proclamation
Definition:
(n.) The act of proclaiming; official or general notice; publication.
(n.) That which is proclaimed, publicly announced, or officially declared; a published ordinance; as, the proclamation of a king; a Thanksgiving proclamation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Canada poised to pass anti-terror legislation despite widespread outrage Read more Among other effects, Alberta’s unexpected revolution casts a shadow over the federal government’s imminent proclamation of sweeping new anti-terrorism legislation , which has provoked opposition from all corners of the political landscape.
(2) That's true of Dawkins' proclamation that "[I] often say Islam [is the] greatest force for evil today."
(3) Some 318 rebels died and 2,217 were wounded; the British army saw 125 killed and 368 wounded; 90 rebels were sentenced to death in an immediate court martial and 15 of those executed, including all seven signatories of the Easter Monday proclamation (the report below erroneously reports that some had been killed in the fighting).
(4) The Ethiopian Mining Proclamation states that the government requests 5% free equity shares with every licensed mining company operating in the country, as well as 35% income tax and 8% royalties.
(5) They were shocked at the king’s proclamations for independence and had tired of his requests that they remove their shoes during royal visits.
(6) Despite constant proclamations surrounding the death of privacy, reports of its demise have been greatly exaggerated.
(7) In 2009, parliament passed the charities and societies proclamation , which placed restrictive regulations on non-government organisations, including limitations on foreign funding.
(8) Obama administration rushes to protect public lands before Trump takes office Read more “The traditional ecological knowledge amassed by the Native Americans whose ancestors inhabited this region, passed down from generation to generation, offers critical insight into the historic and scientific significance of the area,” the president’s proclamation said .
(9) Uneven performance The proclamation by Sir Michael Wilshaw, chief inspector of schools in England, of an "unprecedented improvement" in schools' Ofsted results will have been cheered by many.
(10) • In a presidential proclamation Barack Obama said it was "not enough to reflect with pride on the victories of the civil rights movement".
(11) The Republican president also broke from Barack Obama’s practice of issuing a proclamation in honor of Pride Month.
(12) Historians now tell us that there was a tussle to have women included so pointedly in the proclamation.
(13) Blair, who converted to Catholicism to join the same faith as his wife Cherie, added: "One of the things I loved about meeting such people in office was their unashamed proclamation of their faith."
(14) "They will have had to issue a proclamation in the government gazette specifying it.
(15) He read the proclamation for a new state and held the building until he was forced to evacuate.
(16) Bibi’s zero-tolerance proclamation was the modern equivalent of King Canute standing at the shoreline and commanding the waves to turn back.
(17) However, such a proclamation does not lay out a blueprint for housing the homeless child, or for building safe public transport for the 20-something journalist who works at my magazine.
(18) The governor general did so in a proclamation on Monday, proroguing parliament on 15 April for a new session to begin on 18 April.
(19) Still, I am uncomfortable with all the eulogising that's going on, the strident proclamations that only evil people or dupes could imagine that there is any need for reform.
(20) President Ram Baran Yadav signed the constitution and made the proclamation, setting off a roar of applause from members of the constituent assembly in Kathmandu.